Should I give my birds grit??

I have had chickens for 4 years and I have never bought them girt!! I live in a desert and there are lots of small rocks and pebbles for them to it eat and plus I only feed my girls laying crumbles but Iam going to switch them onto pellets so should I feed them grit?

If they are free range, they should get enough grit from the environment.

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I let mine free range everyonce in while we have a really bad coyote problem and I have lost one bird because of coyotes so mine mostly stay in the coop and run so I would say I will let them out of the run mabeye once a month

bk15
I give my 5 chicks grit and they have a large run. Some chickens are do not like change in the type of feed. If you toss out scratch for them substitute the pellets for 2 or 3 days before you change to pellets. That worked for me.